The Kyle plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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78° on Nov. 17, 2017, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1956. Next is 77° in 2016.
Kyle’s center stands about 2,910 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,800 ft to 3,110 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bell Butte, about 3,270 ft, 8 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Arikaree Group (siltstone, sandstone), from the Oligocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 34 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Oligocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 34 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Claystone, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Kyle reaches the Gulf of America by way of Medicine Root Creek, the White River, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,450 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Francis Case and Lewis and Clark Lake.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kyle; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kyle has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1956 at Kyle 2 E, 2 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
